It has finally come to end. I have officially made it through teacher training! I don’t feel like I can say that I am a teacher yet until after I teach my first class.
But….holy crap…..I teach tomorrow! OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!!!!! That is a trip.
I stopped writing on this blog halfway through cause it was just too hard to sum up everything that was going on. And it still is. Teacher training is something that you just have to experience to really understand. It’s been crazy, fun, emotional, challenging, character-building, rewarding, frustrating, awesome……all at once.
And today, I just feel weird. I am sitting at the airport feeling a little bit lonely. I have been surrounded by 400 people for two months and even when I felt like I was getting some privacy there were still people around. I know that this is just the beginning but I miss my roommate already. We became like an old married couple! We are lucky.
I don’t know what to write so here are a few things that were said during training that I thought were important enough to write down.
Three things that make a solid yoga practitioner according to Emmy Cleaves: Frequency, Precision, Intensity.
‘Change your mind.’
‘Don’t encourage your problem so that it becomes your personality.’
‘Kill ‘em with kindness’
‘Do your karma yoga and just let god and nature do their thing’
‘Compassion is staying still while others spin their wheels’
‘Lose the pain, gain the energy’
‘Try to be the best that you can be so that you can help others’
‘We sell life’
‘The life battle is the biggest battle in the world’
‘A brave warrior cannot take shortcuts’
‘Set a good example cause the next generation will follow’
‘If anyone can steal your happiness or peace then you are the loser and they are the winner.’
‘You’re born to give not to get’
‘Give with zero expectations’
‘Too good is no good’
For as badly as I wanted it to end some days I am surprised at how sad I feel right now. But I can change my mind and that is what I am going to do right now. Life is good. This is just the beginning and I have made some incredible friends. I can now travel all over the world and visit these new friends and spread the yoga. It is all good :)
